From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
civilise
v 1: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
"Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds";
"She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school,
train, cultivate, civilize, civilise]
2: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child
found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" [syn:
civilize, civilise]